If you REALLY want what you’re going after AND you see and acknowledge the suppressed power to do stuff in the people around you, you’ll appear to others to be painted in impossible colors. Many will do whatever they can to help you & some will follow you to the ends of the earthhttps://twitter.com/webdevMason/status/1108766518379077632 …
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How do you become courageous? Humans do this with storytelling & rituals, two very flexible & effective formats for information + emotion transfer that we've either delegated to the institutions of mass culture or basically scrubbed from modern life
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10 Things Successful People Do Differently to Achieve Greatness. Boo, hiss. Shut up. They all READ SCIENCE FICTION, that's what they do.
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I'm trying to figure out How Humanity Wins. The TLDR: "people play a LOT, alone & with each other, with their whole hearts." But they can't right now; it's too scary, they never learned how, they've been punished for it, Hollywood & churches took the tools for self-determination
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For what it's worth, I'm a thoroughly messed up person who gets scared *all the time.* Every single negative trait or tendency stated or implied in this thread is something I've seen in myself. I don't have the missing manual and I'm starved for better stories
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If you're picking up on some thematic trends in these recent "pep-talky" tweets, yup, it's X-Men. You're the mutants and I SEE YOU even if you don't see each otherpic.twitter.com/NpiiYzzrx7
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I know it's not a Very Serious Person Doing Very Serious Things sort of thing to admit, but everything I'm doing right now is basically powered by X-Men self-insert daydreaming. I was so, so lonely when I was a kid. I wish someone had seen me.
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I 100% endorse doing this, btw. Find stories that really click for you and go walk the hero's path. The "bad guy" in X-Men isn't really the villain of the week, it's isolation — specifically, the kind of isolation that causes people to reject their own gifts
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Most important idea here is “don’t take it too seriously.” We need a compilation video of theoretical physicists looking at their work, saying, “Huh. Well that’s f***ing weird.” We don’t *really* know what’s up, ever, on any level & we’re nicer to each other when we grok that
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